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In words that are undeniably Casement's own, he once wrote, "I sought by love alone to go, Where God had writ an awful no."

From Time Magazine Archive

The British Army and Navy sang a rousing song called “Heart of Oak”; the rebels had writ one to counter it called “The Liberty Song.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Someone had took a pen or something and had writ on all five of them, but it was writ in a code so I couldn’t understand what they meant.

From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis

I showed Ma and Pa the paper Mrs. Holton had writ and they told me it was a great honour to do this, that I had to do the best job I could.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis

It had writ ’cross it in rough letters, Benjamin Alston, your Wilbur Place.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis